Two factor authentication for thousands of users
If a company or an organization wants to provide two factor authentication for thousands of users they are faced with totally new challenges. Users will not come to the administrators desk. The administrator will not enroll a hardware token or initialize the user’s smartphone with the Google Authenticator on a per user basis. There are […]
privacyIDEA Authenticator – the better smartphone factor
The smartphone is our daily tool and the digital copy of our own identity. This is not the place to discuss the social implications. We just state the fact. The Smartphone as the second factor Due to this fact many organisations and companies like to use smartphones for a security improved authentication process. The smartphone […]
privacyIDEA 2.19 – Performance, U2F and secure Smartphone Apps
Today we released privacyIDEA 2.19. Packages are available in the Launchpad-Repos for Ubuntu 14.04LTS and 16.04LTS. You can also install privacyIDEA on any Linux distribution using the python package index. New Features in privacyIDEA Authentication performance In tests in the lab privacyIDEA 2.19 shows improved performance. Authentication requests are up to 72% faster than in the previous […]
privacyIDEA Enrollment Station for Yubikey and Nitrokey
Using the Yubikey and the Nitrokey with privacyIDEA is great. With the privacyIDEA admin client you can initialize the secret seeeds on both devices and thus achieving the highest trust with privacyIDEA. The vendor does not generate the seeds anymore – you do. But to initializes these devices you need some drivers on your system. This […]
Easy and simple OTP mass deployment
If you need to deploy a huge number of OTP tokens to your end users, this is often a tricky challenge. The two factor authentication with these enrolled tokens may only be as secure as the enrollment process itself. Often a simple password is not enough to let the user enroll or assign a token […]